reckon : Idioms & Phrases

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day of reckoning

  • noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
    Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; end of the world; Last Day; Last Judgement.
  • noun an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
    doomsday; doom; end of the world.
    • everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
    • that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world
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Dead reckoning

  • noun an estimate based on little or no information
    guesswork; guess; shot; guessing.
  • noun navigation without the aid of celestial observations
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  • (Naut.), the method of determining the place of a ship from a record kept of the courses sailed as given by compass, and the distance made on each course as found by log, with allowance for leeway, etc., without the aid of celestial observations.
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dead-reckoning

Dead"-reck`on*ing noun
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) See under Dead, a.
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To be astern of the reckoning

  • to be behind the position given by the reckoning
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To be out of her reckoning

  • to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; said of a ship.
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To reckon for

  • to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." Bp. Sanderson.
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To reckon on ∨ upon

  • to count or depend on.
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To reckon with

  • to settle accounts or claims with; used literally or figuratively.
    After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. Matt. xxv. 19.
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To reckon without one's host

  • to ignore in a calculation or arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon erroneously.
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